Garrosh is put on trial. He escapes before the verdict. He has a new friend with a “unique ability to bend time”

Garrosh goes back. He hates the Horde now, and hates the alliance, too. He goes back to “a place and time when the world makes sense to him”

Wants to take the horde back to a more ideal time. He wants to stop the one moment that defined the history of azeroth: He wants to stop the moment when the orcs drink the blood. Wants to build an “iron horde” with all the chieftains of old, with some of the present technology. Wants to build a different, but uncorrupted, horde. Wants to lead the iron horde thru the dark portal to “align” it to our time.

Most of the expansion takes place in Old Draenor. Feels like outland, but is a contiguous continent.

Garrosh facilitates the storytelling, but is NOT the Big Bad Boss.

Grommash unites the orc clans.

7 new zones in Draenor:

Map has reminiscent aspects of Outlands (similar scale).

This will still feel completely different – rebuilt from scratch.

New character model update:

Want the same feel as the old character models, but higher visual fidelity. Better facial detail – The faces will smile and emote. Updated animations with the visual model changes.

Art panel will show more detail on the race updates.

New Feature Updates!

You get to build your own base on Draenor. “This is the world of warcraft version of housing”.

Collect followers. You get offline progression by sending your followers off do do things.

You can customize and make decisions about: what zone you put your base in, what buildings you want in what spots.

Limited access to professions you don’t have. “You can build a mine in your base. Extra mining nodes… Send NPC with mining skill to do your dirty work for you”

Each of the buildings will offer different bonuses. You can choose what is important to you. Three tiers of progression in building your garrison.

You can move the garrison to a new place.

Monuments & trophies – tied to things like achievements or kills. Mount trophies in your town hall in your garrison!!!

Specializations for your buildings feel like having a talent tree – bonuses will vary.

Other game systems updates:

“Just play for us for the next 4 or 5 weeks and then you can play with us” – Greg

The boost to level 90 is because “WOW is better with friends”. You can boost one of your characters to level 90. This can include brand-new characters. Cleans up your bags, quest log, and action bar. Doesn’t take anything away, but want to make the experience “seamless”.

Adventure guide gives you “at a glance information to progress from your character”. Path to gear upgrades customized for your character individually (can tell if you play a lot of PVP, PVE, what professions you have). Tells you what raid content you are ready for.